books.google.be - While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were a vital theater of power through which the ducal court and the urban centers constantly renegotiated...http://books.google.be/books/about/Realms_of_Ritual.html?id=0mcKhLE4BF4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRealms of Ritual